This repo contains libraries to aid in DevOps automation. Though still a work-in-progress, the goal of this solution is to provide a way to bootstrap a progressive web application (running Vue JS with an ASP.NET Core server) given a business-object schema as JSON. This bootstrapper should also generate an Azure Resource Manager template and host the produced source code as a project on Visual Studio Team Services (including Build and Release definitions).
In short, this enables authoring declarative templates for building web applications. Libraries contained in this repo define the declarative-template schema and process the template to generate source code, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure Resource Manager template assets.
See below for projects contained in this repository. Click on project name to navigate to project README file.
| Project | Purpose | Depends on |
|---|---|---|
| Abstractions.Core | Contains generic services (mostly related to interacting with EntityFramework DbContext entities). | |
| Abstractions.UniqueStrings | Provides a simple DbContext for storing string values uniquely. Useful for composing a normalized, relational database DbContext. | Abstractions.Core |
| Abstractions.BusinessObjects | Entities and DbContext for storing 'business object' schema as data. Useful for generating source code, work items, or any other DevOps assets based on this schema data. | Abstractions.UniqueStrings |
| Abstractions.BusinessObjects.Simplified | Provides a simplified wrapper for ingesting Abstractions.BusinessObjects entities. | Abstractions.BusinessObjects |
| Abstractions.BusinessObjects.Simplified.Json | Further simplifies ingesting BusinessObjects data. Useful for ingesting schema definition from .json files. | Abstractions.BusinessObjects.Simplified |
| Abstractions.SourceCode | Contains source code file abstractions. | Abstractions.BusinessObjects |
| Abstractions.SourceCode.Solutions | Adds abstractions generating for Visual Studio solutions and projects. | Abstractions.SourceCode |
| Abstractions.SourceCode.TypeDeclarations | Adds abstractions for generating C# .cs type declarations. | Abstractions.SourceCode.Solutions |
| Abstractions.SourceCode.VueJs | Adds abstractions for generating Vue JS .vue component declarations | Abstractions.SourceCode.TypeDeclarations |
| Abstractions.Platforms.AspNetCore | Contains abstractions for generating ASP.NET Core server applications. | Abstractions.Core |
Given that this is a work-in-progress, the outputs listed below may not reflect the current working state of the DevOps automation tooling, but rather provide a goal of what this tooling should be able to create:
- Project / Team on Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
- Git Repository on VSTS
- VSTS Build definition
- VSTS Release definition
- ASP.NET Core server application
- API endpoints for resources (within server application)
- EntityFramework Core database context w/ migrations (within server application)
- Client-side Vue component app (w/ Webpack served from server app)
- Automated test code (invoked from VSTS Build & Release)
- C# client SDK for interacting with API resources
- NuGet package(s) for client SDK
Once the DevOps tooling is capable of producing the above outputs, the ability to produce the following outputs should be integrated into the tooling:
- Universal Windows Platform app
- Xamarin.Forms app
- TV / Watch apps
Each of the above is an alterative front-end experience to the Vue JS progressive web application. With .NET Standard, these platforms can share a data access layer that consumes the client SDK which interacts with the ASP.NET Core web API resources.
Additionally, it may be desirable to generate GraphQL server & client code, Power BI reports & dashboards, etc.